UVM Department of Theatre's production of 'Urinetown — The Musical.' / Courtesy of Sally McCay, University of Vermont

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Free Press Staff Writer

Two of Vermont’s premiere professional stage companies and the theater department at the state’s largest institution of higher learning are in full swing with productions this week:

• 7:30 p.m. Wednesdays-Saturdays, 2 p.m. Sundays and this Saturday, through March 30, Vermont Stage gets sexy with the provocative David Ives comedy “Venus in Fur” at FlynnSpace in Burlington. $28.80-$37.50. 862-1497, www.vtstage.org.

• 7:30 p.m. Thursday-Saturday and March 20-22, 2 p.m. Saturday and March 23, the University of Vermont Department of Theatre presents the number-one musical (so to speak) “Urinetown” at Royall Tyler Theatre in Burlington. $10-$21. 656-2094, www.uvmtheatre.org.

• Through March 23, the White River Junction theater company Northern Stage continues its run of a play Vermont Stage attendees might remember from last season, the David Lindsay-Abaire script “Good People,” at the Briggs Opera House. $10-$60. 296-7000, www.northernstage.org.